the world is divided into raging fanatics who want a nicer world,
Fuck you. SJWs don't want a "nicer world", they want a world where they get to jump down anybody's throat, get them fired or ruin their careers for any imagined slight, no matter how trivial or ridiculous it may be.
No, fuck YOU. Customers aren't property, and if cabs can't compete with Uber because of all the regs they bought and paid for to try to exclude competition, thats they're own damned fault.
I read a proposal for using bitcoin, where each user would decide and publish in something like an MX record the amount they would charge to accept a message from an unknown sender. No centralized authority required.
I can easily remember when any language that couldn't compile its own compiler was considered a toy language.
I remember that too, but it turns out that self-compilation is a parlor trick. We all have more important things to do than rewrite a compiler when one already exists that does the job.
Oh, you mean the same pack of assholes who have let American primary education go to shit over the last four decades, regardless of how much tax money they got to piss away?
The problem is government control of schools, at any level. As long as there's a near-monopoly on schooling, the curriculum is going to be a political issue. In a free market for schools, idiots will send their kids to schools that teach creationism, marxism, scientology, or keynesian economics, and smarter people will send their kids to schools that reject the woo-woo.
Yeah, and they'd give us the Aaron Swartz treatment for having figured out how simple it was to find and read the plain-text accounts and passwords list that was kept in the administrator's storage area.
When I was in 8th grade, I got my hands on an Interdata 8/32 system that had a pair of teletype ASR-33s, and a BASIC interpreter. I spent a year mostly waiting for my turn at one of the two keyboards that about a dozen of us wanted to use. I typed in BASIC games from David Ahl's book, and I played around with punching large letters on the paper tape and printing out ASCII art.
In my high school, we had a computer lab with three HP terminals, that connected through a leased line to a pair of HP2000 and an HP3000 minicomputer. The HP machines were able to submit batch jobs to an IBM 360 through an RJE(remote job entry) facility.
My computer teacher was a retired USAF colonel who had some experience with mainframes, and some exposure to basic concepts of computing back in the 1950s and early 60s. For most of the kids, concepts like hashing and basic statistical methods were over their heads, so he taught me and two or three of my friends, and we taught the class.
The main thing we got out of the school's computer lab was access. The most interesting things we did had nothing to do with the curriculum, they were all after-school and free period projects. We learned how to defeat the trivial security that HP had at the time, we wrote BASIC programs that did fun tricks on the CRT terminals with cursor control, we had a rudimentary chat and e-mail system which the administration kept trying to shut down, and we got our hands on a BASIC rewrite of Crowther & Woods Adventure, and later Zork games, which we experimented with and modified. About this time, a handful of my friends were getting their hands on Apple and Atari computers at home.
Where I really learned to write code was on my first two computing jobs: the first was a company that was developing games for Cox Cablevision to run on a set-top box that they were test marketing. The second job was where I learned the C language, by writing code and making every possible mistake while sitting in an office beside two much more skilled C developers (one of whom later went on to serve on the ANSI committee that standardized the language.)
In the years since then, every good programmer I've worked with has been largely self-taught, and they started at the same age or earlier than I did. I'm convinced that the best thing an elementary or high school can hope for today is just letting kids figure it out by working with their peers on whatever interests them.
They have no students. They operate no schools. They piss away billions of dollars and damage education by imposing bullshit federal regulations on local schools.
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First time I get spammed on WhatsApp, I'm deleting it. Fuck you, Zuck.
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What kind of response do you expect to a gratuitous insult? Did you think I'd give you a participation trophy? Fuck you for calling me a liar.
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Intellectually dishonest people such as yourself
Fuck you, snowflake.
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The cunt who tried to destroy Tim Hunt's career wasn't some "evil internet bogeyman", smart-ass.
Read and learn: http://reason.com/archives/201...
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the world is divided into raging fanatics who want a nicer world,
Fuck you. SJWs don't want a "nicer world", they want a world where they get to jump down anybody's throat, get them fired or ruin their careers for any imagined slight, no matter how trivial or ridiculous it may be.
-jcr
I can't believe you're bitching about BASIC going away. Get a life.
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There's a term for that in data security circles. That's what we call NOT PRIVATE, for fuck's sake.
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What the weasel is asking for is a way to shut people up. It's the standard "OMFG terrorists use this" excuse.
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Among other things, a sniper runs the risk of being taken out by a sniper fighting for the other side.
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No, fuck YOU. Customers aren't property, and if cabs can't compete with Uber because of all the regs they bought and paid for to try to exclude competition, thats they're own damned fault.
-jcr
I read a proposal for using bitcoin, where each user would decide and publish in something like an MX record the amount they would charge to accept a message from an unknown sender. No centralized authority required.
-jcr
The project should probably have an open troll thread. Might keep the noise down in the serious discussion threads.
Maybe we should just make a Swift board on 4chan.
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I can easily remember when any language that couldn't compile its own compiler was considered a toy language.
I remember that too, but it turns out that self-compilation is a parlor trick. We all have more important things to do than rewrite a compiler when one already exists that does the job.
-jcr
Giving welfare to everybody isn't taking away welfare, sparky. It's expanding it. Do try to keep up, will you?
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almost everyone in education circles
Oh, you mean the same pack of assholes who have let American primary education go to shit over the last four decades, regardless of how much tax money they got to piss away?
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Are you seriously trying to defend common core by argumentum ad veracundiam?
Look at the results, you bootlicking pinhead.
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The problem is government control of schools, at any level. As long as there's a near-monopoly on schooling, the curriculum is going to be a political issue. In a free market for schools, idiots will send their kids to schools that teach creationism, marxism, scientology, or keynesian economics, and smarter people will send their kids to schools that reject the woo-woo.
-jcr
Yeah, and they'd give us the Aaron Swartz treatment for having figured out how simple it was to find and read the plain-text accounts and passwords list that was kept in the administrator's storage area.
-jcr
Give people money for doing fuck-all, and you'll get a lot more people doing fuck-all.
-jcr
When I was in 8th grade, I got my hands on an Interdata 8/32 system that had a pair of teletype ASR-33s, and a BASIC interpreter. I spent a year mostly waiting for my turn at one of the two keyboards that about a dozen of us wanted to use. I typed in BASIC games from David Ahl's book, and I played around with punching large letters on the paper tape and printing out ASCII art.
In my high school, we had a computer lab with three HP terminals, that connected through a leased line to a pair of HP2000 and an HP3000 minicomputer. The HP machines were able to submit batch jobs to an IBM 360 through an RJE(remote job entry) facility.
My computer teacher was a retired USAF colonel who had some experience with mainframes, and some exposure to basic concepts of computing back in the 1950s and early 60s. For most of the kids, concepts like hashing and basic statistical methods were over their heads, so he taught me and two or three of my friends, and we taught the class.
The main thing we got out of the school's computer lab was access. The most interesting things we did had nothing to do with the curriculum, they were all after-school and free period projects. We learned how to defeat the trivial security that HP had at the time, we wrote BASIC programs that did fun tricks on the CRT terminals with cursor control, we had a rudimentary chat and e-mail system which the administration kept trying to shut down, and we got our hands on a BASIC rewrite of Crowther & Woods Adventure, and later Zork games, which we experimented with and modified. About this time, a handful of my friends were getting their hands on Apple and Atari computers at home.
Where I really learned to write code was on my first two computing jobs: the first was a company that was developing games for Cox Cablevision to run on a set-top box that they were test marketing. The second job was where I learned the C language, by writing code and making every possible mistake while sitting in an office beside two much more skilled C developers (one of whom later went on to serve on the ANSI committee that standardized the language.)
In the years since then, every good programmer I've worked with has been largely self-taught, and they started at the same age or earlier than I did. I'm convinced that the best thing an elementary or high school can hope for today is just letting kids figure it out by working with their peers on whatever interests them.
-jcr
They have no students. They operate no schools. They piss away billions of dollars and damage education by imposing bullshit federal regulations on local schools.
-jcr
The carry permit means nothing, per the constitution. There is no legitimate authority for any state to issue a permit for a fundamental right.
-jcr
Specifically, the "full faith and credit" clause. They don't have any legal prerogative to declare a state-issued ID invalid or unacceptable.
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Same ideas that Mark Weiser was talking about at Xerox PARC in the early 1980s.
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The difference is that incompetence isn't rewarded in other countries' educational systems.
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